William Shakespeare 
The Winter’s Tale 

CAMILLO
I think this coming summer the King of Sicilia means to pay Bohemia the visitation which he justly owes him.

ARCHIDAMUS
Wherein our entertainment shall shame us we will be justified in our loves; for indeed, –

CAMILLO
Beseech you, –

ARCHIDAMUS
Verily, I speak it in the freedom of my knowledge: we cannot with such magnificence-in so rare-I know not what to say.-We will give you sleepy drinks, that your senses, unintelligent of our insufficience, may, though they cannot praise us, as little accuse us.

CAMILLO
You pay a great deal too dear for what’s given freely.

ARCHIDAMUS
Believe me, I speak as my understanding instructs me and as mine honesty puts it to utterance.